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The ATSC 3.0 digital terrestrial standard has passed a major milestone with the first US deployment of a multi-station service exploiting the full scope of the new technology.

There is level and then there is loudness. Neither can be measured absolutely, but by adopting standardized approaches it is possible to have measurements that are useful.

For anyone who's seen the first series to bear the title, the name Penny Dreadful will conjure up images of occult happenings in a shadowy, late-Victorian world. After twenty-seven episodes across three highly successful seasons, Showtime aired the last episode…

Broadcasters are far more upbeat about the impact 5G mobile networks will have on their services than they were in the case of 4G when that was introduced around a decade ago.

Prudential Center, the world-class sports and entertainment venue located in downtown Newark, New Jersey, has replaced its aging signal and communications infrastructure with an all-new signal routing and intercom backbone based on distributed architecture technology from Riedel Communications.

9Darts.HK streamed matches of the recent DARTSLIVE Cup Singapore tournament using a mix of Blackmagic Design streaming and broadcast gear.

Test results are published in the JT-NM Spring 2020 Self-Tested Catalogs.

Brainstorm's InfinitySet 4 upgrade includes a number of features designed to enhance content creation and output plus additional hardware support for Unreal Engine workflows.

Riedel Communications and Remote Recording Network (RRN) are collaborating on a unique remote mastering service for a live-streamed concert performed by Peter Maffay and local musicians from Steintor-Variet? in Halle, Germany.

Genelec Smart Active Monitors are central to the immersive setup at Audio Lisbon's new post production facility in Portugal. The purpose-built facility was created to help the post house move into international markets, with a 7.1.4 monitoring system selected to…

Ethiopia's public broadcaster Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) has chosen Lawo mixing consoles and I/O devices as the basis for new DSNG units with 4K workflow. Based in Adama, Ethiopia, OBN is Oromia State's leading media organization, serving a regional audience…

Engineers and production crews help local TV stations maintain distancing and a sunny on-air personality.

When broadcast TV was the only media consumption option available to consumers - video monitoring was regarded as a luxury. Today it is seen as an essential requirement in all forms of media content delivery.

Cloud computing is helping a myriad of professional organizations expand their reach and implement new types of IP workflows that were not possible previously. It has also allowed media companies to work virtually anywhere.

Planning the cinematography of a production which is quite literally about darkness is a challenge. Shooting a documentary with a skeleton crew in a place where power cuts are every day is an even bigger challenge. Director of photography Miguel…

"We're productizing a transformation, not a transition." Mark Aitken, President of Sinclair's One Media.

Black Dragon Capital purchases leading TV solutions company from Belden.

Grass Valley provides new production and integrated playout solutions for greater workflow efficiencies.

UHD technical monitoring is crucial for the success of the production.

Grass Valley provides future-ready solutions for visionary mobile UHD production unit.

Telos Alliance has announced a free v2.0 update for its broadcast audio processor, Omnia Volt.

LYNX Technik expands yellobriks with new 12Gbit Bi-Directional SDI/Fiber Transceiver.

GatesAir recently announced that Rocky Mountain Public Media, owner of a statewide Colorado network of PBS member stations, has purchased multiple GatesAir Maxiva UHF transmitters and ATSC 3.0-ready XTE exciters as part of an extensive, multi-station upgrade.

Playout automation has been enabling fewer people to control more channels for decades but we're not quite at the point where human interaction can be eliminated altogether. Since most linear broadcasters will either move to a software-based deployment for their…

In 2017, at that year's VidTrans conference a regional gathering of members of the Video Services Forum (VSF), a new protocol for delivering audio and video over lossy IP networks (including the public Internet), was born. It was an idea…

The ?31 billion ($40 billion) merger deal in the UK between cable company Virgin Media and mobile operator O2 will if approved create a second major fully converged entertainment and communications group in the country alongside BT.

Glasgow in December is a place and a time with a particular look, and The Nest is a production which enthusiastically embraces that aesthetic. Broadcast in the UK beginning in March 2020, it was produced for the BBC by Studio…

The global lockdowns have come just too soon for 5G mobile services to help mitigate disruption to production and content creation.

In a move that was not unexpected due to current pandemic conditions around the world, the annual IBC 2020 show in Amsterdam, set to take place on September 11-14, has been cancelled. In recent weeks two major exhibitors - Panasonic…

Solid State Logic (SSL) has introduced a new control surface for its S300 console, featuring a 48+1 fader design, that can be combined with the complete portfolio of SSL's System T consoles, remote tiles and screen interfaces, Tempest Processing Engines,…

Interra Systems’ ORION-OTT System is integrated with Skyline Communications’ DataMiner Network Management and Orchestration Platform's AI technologies to efficiently manage content workflow and QC alerts.

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has launched a new live streaming service, providing a mix of entertainment, community news, music and children's content via its social media channels.

Lawo has announced the latest software release of its VSM IP broadcast control system. The new VSM Release 2020-2 will be available from summer 2020.

Tailored configurations of ENCO's enCaption automated captioning solution are optimized for the evolving needs of public, education and government access (PEG) stations.

More than 200 high-power antennas and transmission lines in North America have been in operation for at least 30 years.

Standardized QoS/QoE monitoring systems ensure that Sinclair operators can seamlessly aggregate, analyze and troubleshoot all broadcast performance data groupwide. It also builds a solid foundation for future automation.

To see how to make computers secure, we have to go way back to see how they work.

Noise shaping performs an important role in digital audio because it allows hardware to be made at lower cost without sacrificing performance, and in some cases allowing a performance improvement.

In the mid 1990s, the north of England was a hotbed of film production, with well-known features such as Brassed Off and The Full Monty all produced within a few years and a few miles of each other. The Northern…

Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), otherwise known as MPEG-5 Part 2, has emerged as de facto codec of the year after adoption by a number of broadcasters and technology companies, as well as promotion to MPEG/ISO final draft international…

PHABRIX and Riedel partner to announce availability of new and versatile functionalities in Sx TAG IP.

MediaKind, the video technology company spun out of Ericsson in 2018, has published a Sports D2C Forecast for 2021 finding that almost all rights holders are looking towards direct consumer video platforms to engage more deeply with their fan base.…

With the majority of their business activities focused on assisting in the creation of both mobile and studio-based production centres, the integration of Bridge Technologies' VB440 into Broadcast Solutions' product offerings will be of significant importance - offering breakthrough monitoring…

Magewell, a Chinese developer of hardware and software for video and audio capture, conversion and streaming based in Nanjing, is now shipping the latest decoder models in its Pro Convert family of low-latency video-over-IP converters.

RemoteAccess-GATE from Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) enables customers to remotely operate KVM systems via LAN, WAN and the Internet.

UK global IP video delivery network provider Cerberus has launched a new version of its Livelink SaaS (Software as a Service) live delivery platform, allowing users to manage live feeds from any location.

The Finish Line has migrated from AWS Glacier to the MatrixStore Cloud service from Object Matrix for content archiving.

When the pandemic began shutting down TV stations in the spring of this year, journalists and producers were left to figure out how to work from home and set up technical systems they were very unfamiliar with. In many cases…

The consumer video market is growing fiercely competitive between content creators and content aggregators and OTT live and OTT VOD formats are growing increasingly fragmented. Consumers are benefiting from the tremendous choice of content and sources for that content while…

Once upon a time, the cause of data corruption would be accidental. A dropout on a tape or interference picked up on a cable would damage a few bits. Error correction was designed to deal with that.

With the population of China approaching 1.4 billion, it's perhaps no surprise that it is fast becoming the biggest market in the world for theatrical film exhibition, with the largest number of cinema screens of any single country. Directors such…

Performance and low latency demands of live video are helping drive leading mobile operators to deploy edge computing within their cellular and particularly emerging 5G infrastructures.

Built around Grass Valley IP solutions including GV Orbit Dynamic System Orchestration and Kahuna 9600 IP production switcher, the all-IP, 4K UHD HDR capable unit gives the UK-based company a ready to go and future-proof mobile production capability and expands…

The new R&S TLV9 low-power VHF transmitter features robust design, minimum footprint and is future-proof. DAB+ transmission has never been so easy.

Blackmagic Design's ATEM Mini Pro has helped the latest series of The Gadget Show, produced by North One Television in Birmingham, to stay on air despite social distancing challenges.

The Swiss Football League (SFL) is the latest major sports organization to supercharge referee communications using Riedel Communications' Bolero S. In partnership with production company NEP, Riedel is providing Bolero S - a managed-service offering built around the award-winning Bolero…

Contained within a stylish aluminum casing for a 10,9 inch iPad Pro, the PoE+ Tabletop kit facilitates display of the intuitive, analytical capabilities of the VB440, providing a flexible, portable and stylish HTML5-based visual display of packet behaviours in a…

TSL Products has updated its advanced broadcast control panel offerings with its new AIB-4, Web-keys for control panels and PTZ camera control through its TallyMan Virtual Panels.

Telestream makes it easier to integrate HDR, color processing, frame rate conversion and more into Vantage transcoding workflows.

In a time of social distancing, video professionals have turned to technology that allows them to work remotely yet collaboratively over a secure Internet connection. This remote production strategy has helped production and postproduction companies as well as video streaming,…

German pay TV operator Sky Deutschland has combined with Spanish telco Telefonica for 5G Broadcast of a live sports event from camera to client, claiming this to be a first for Europe.

During the DTV transition, we chief engineers in the Kansas City market joked about broadcasting the most popular cable channels on our new ATSC 1.0 digital subchannels and running the local MVPDs out of business. Station owners weren't interested because…

As 5G mobile networks become more ubiquitous, the Broadcast and OTT industries are looking to leverage the technology's speed and low-latency advantages for the management and distribution of live content. Tech companies too are now leveraging cloud-based, edge computing services…

Having pioneered 5G Broadcast / Multicast in many countries, Rohde & Schwarz has introduced version 2.0 of its Broadcast Server & Control Center. The R&S?BSCC2.0 enables many new mobile business models from venue casting to multimedia streaming on demand, live…

Telos Alliance launches Axia iQs AES67 mixing console software with full HTML-5 control, allowing broadcasters to 'Studio Anywhere'.

The new models let customers use HDMI equipment with professional SDI systems.

Telestream announce a new option and a new name for its live ABR monitoring service. The newly named Telestream Cloud Stream Monitor service now adds contribution feed monitoring and ad tracking to the system's existing edge feed monitoring features.

The announcement, made by Kevin Joyce, TAG's Zer0 Friction Officer, emphasized that the relationship will help customers cut a clear and simplified path toward an IP-based workflow in the cloud. When coupled with TAG’s Zer0 Friction flexible, on demand OPEX…

Turkuvaz Media Group, a major Turkish media company with TV, radio, newspaper and magazine assets, has commissioned a newly-updated media center facility in Istanbul with Lawo as a premiere technology supplier.

The membership will further enhance confidence for broadcast providers seeking multi-vendor network solutions.

With the release of the core parts of the SMPTE ST 2110 suite, the confusion around different transport standards for audio and video over IP is settled. However, the adoption of these solutions for day-to-day use is still far from…

As TV and movie production studios begin to slowly resume operations, they are doing so very carefully and with a number of government-mandated protocols for safe working in place. Some say these operational restrictions-limited crew, remote control when possible, non-essential…

Now that the virtual IBC 2020 has passed with hardly a whimper on the world broadcasting stage, paradoxically vendors, service providers and content producers are counting the indirect cost of the real event's absence.

Digital audio relies completely on the accuracy of quantization and it is important to see how it works.

BBC Cymru Wales is broadcasting live from its state-of-the-art Central Square facility in Cardiff, leveraging Grass Valley's end-to-end, open standards-based IP infrastructure and workflows.

With its core business in live sports production, Grass Valley has seen its revenue contract significantly over the past eight months but with a new integrated software-defined product roadmap, it looks to bounce back while "reducing the pain" of migrating…

?Telestream's streaming solution Wirecast Studio is allowing Las Vegas-based training services company Seven Wonders to transform its in-person, instructor-led workshops into online training sessions.

The comprehensive software-based platform supports compliance, logging, recording, monitoring, archiving, clips creation, and audience measurement analysis.

Thoroughbred Racing Productions (TRP), a leading provider of production services for the Australian thoroughbred horse racing industry, has migrated its communications and signal routing infrastructure to Riedel Communications' Artist digital matrix intercom, Bolero wireless intercom, and MediorNet real-time network.

Belgian media networking and storage company SDNsquare has collaborated with UK-based CTV OB to upgrade its latest OB Unit to a ST2110 IP-based infrastructure ahead of the European Golf Tour.

NDI, part of the Vizrt Group along with NewTek and Vizrt brands says that NDI technology is integrated with Microsoft Teams for video production workflows.

Big-screen LCD TVs are not going away any time soon. Given the economy of scale, the LCDs in our homes and studios work well enough and will continue to work well enough for several more years. But given the advances…

Among a number of things, the pandemic has accelerated product development timelines for remote production and the migration to virtualized IP infrastructures, supporting the ability to produce content remotely and stay socially distanced. Many of these new tools were already…

The seismic shift in paid video away from legacy broadcast towards online services has occurred first in developed nations spearheaded by the US, but recently similar trends have been gathering force in some developing markets as well.

In 2018, ??Rohde & Schwarz announced a new multi-user shared access storage system called SpycerNode. It offers a radically different approach to coping with broadcast & media storage requirements. In this article, we take a closer look to see how…

TV test and measurement gear and instrument solutions also facilitate remote production and monitoring.

Urdu language broadcaster, Public News, has selected a range of Grass Valley solutions to underpin its upgraded production and playout operation.

"Psych 2: Lassie Come Home" was shot using a variety of Blackmagic Design products as part of the cart used during production by DIT Ryan McGregor.

Telestream's Wirecast Studio streaming solution is allowing Fun Roads Media to remotely monitor over-the-air broadcasts by its network affiliates across North America.

At the virtual IBC2020, Bridge Technologies announced the mosaic and multiviewer capability of its Widglets? API: a revolutionary and flexible approach to production monitoring.

Bridge Technologies have now completed their integration of the VB440 IP Probe for Nine Network, an Australian free-to-air digital TV service provider. This integration forms a part of Nine's wider site relocation, involving the creation of a brand new 'creative…

PRIME 3.7 is the latest iteration of the company's flagship graphics solution. With PRIME already recognized as a design and data integration powerhouse, a primary focus for this release is fulfilling the highest expectations of operators in a fast-paced live…

New feature "Last Call", which was shot in two simultaneous 80-minute takes, was colored in DaVinci Resolve Studio by colorist and cinematographer Seth Wessel-Estes.

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today,…

Recreating a period New York in Hungary might seem an unreasonable challenge until it becomes clear that the country has become a hub for international production with at least two large-scale backlots for just that purpose. In the summer of…

OTT is becoming more and more prevalent in the world of video consumption. Some people would say that it will become the dominant form of video delivery in years to come as the underlying technologies expand, develop or mature, and…

The ViacomCBS Pluto TV AvoD (Advertising VoD) service has launched in Spain, increasing its European orbit to five countries.

It is unwise to pretend that gamma corrected signals can successfully be multiplied, added and subtracted in a matrix as if they represented linear light. Yet in television it is done all the time.

Global broadcast solutions specialist, ES Broadcast, has made a significant purchase of Grass Valley’s revolutionary LDX 100 IP camera platform. The UK-based company has invested in 50 cameras, with an option on 50 more before the end of the year,…

The company also adds new functionalities to its Hybrid Cloud architecture.

Discovery’s leading multi-sports brand, Eurosport, has selected Grass Valley solutions as part of a major technology transformation to provide ‘true cloud’ architecture supporting playout across the network’s sports broadcasts.

ChyronHego's Coach Paint video analysis software is being used by the NBA's Atlanta Hawks to enhance clips in the team's video library, illustrating terminology for players and visually reinforcing coaching points.

Virtualisation is now at the forefront of broadcast workflows as a result of COVID-19 and the shift in how many stations across the globe are now operating throughout the industry.

A Lawo 24-fader mc?36 All-in-One console and two compact Lawo stageboxes are at the heart of the new 4K OB truck that Lawo partner ARET Video & Audio Engineering has designed and built. The Gulf state client manages a culture-based…

?Indie thriller Beckman was shot on the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K using Blackmagic RAW, and graded in DaVinci Resolve Studio.

All video services begin with some form of content production and acquisition, so we will assume this is constant regardless of the content distribution method.

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

Media companies were already gradually moving towards as-a-service business models before Coronavirus hit. However, X-as-a-Service is not a simple transition and it is not for all product or all companies.

The Ultra HD Forum has confirmed launch of its first API for forensic watermarking before the end of 2020.

Computer security is always a hot topic, but what do we mean by security and why do systems seem to be ever vulnerable. Comparing hardware to software helps understand vulnerabilities in software security.

Like most industry gatherings this year, the 2020 SMPTE show is virtual and runs from November 10-12, complete with an interactive environment that incorporates a main conference hub, meeting rooms, theater space for sessions and the annual awards gala, and…

TAG Video Systems has announced that its Flagship MCM-9000 platform can now read and monitor SCTE 35 program insertion triggers in HLS and MPEG-DASH sources. This enhancement, the result of customer requests, gives OTT Broadcasters greater control over their content…

Game Creek Video has launched four new mobile units in the last year - with a fifth nearing completion - relying on Riedel Communications' ultra-dense IP gateway solutions for intertruck connectivity. Riedel's MediorNet FusioN standalone IP converters drive full SMPTE…

AI-based transcription, captioning and translation platform Simon Says has been integrated with Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve for macOS.

MediaKind, the video technology company spun out of Ericsson in 2018, has claimed credit for its customer Altice Portugal's MEO becoming the country's leading pay TV service with 39.8% of subscribers.

Unified Streaming has announced an enhancement to its video playlist technology for OTT streams that improves engagement with viewers, creates efficiencies in streaming workflows and drives new advertising opportunities.

iSIZE Technologies says its BitSave precoding technology can achieve up to 5x speed performance increase for up to 25% bitrate savings using Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Dejero EnGo mobile transmitters aid Quality Media's flawless live multi-camera production of 2020 Piromusical fireworks from four secret locations.

The impact of AI on videoconferencing bandwidth reduction couldn't be accelerating at a more opportune time.

Genelec Senior Technologist Thomas Lund starts down the road to ideal monitoring for immersive audio by looking at what is real, and how that could or should be translated for the listener.

Cinematographer John Brawley finds himself happily amidst of an unprecedented renaissance of high-end television. The Great is a production that presents a lavish (if fictionalised) spectacle of eighteenth-century Russia, with Brawley photographing five episodes, with the remainder shot by Maja…

As in all systems where there are opposed ideologies, there is a kind of cold war in which advances on one side need to be balanced by advances on the other. In encryption, the availability of increased computing power at…

To maintain high quality of experience for their customers, content providers need a way to monitor hundreds-sometimes thousands-of channels without compromising real-time error detection. In most cases, the immense scale of their service offerings makes continual visual monitoring of all…

It was on December 13, 2011 that the Federal Communications Committee (FCC, the governmental body that oversees TV broadcasting in the U.S.), along with many irritated consumers, had had enough and decided to do something about the often times huge…

The Indian free-to-air news channel opts for greater flexibility and scalability as it upgrades its playout and production with Grass Valley's iTX integrated playout platform.

Technicolor, headquartered in Paris, has become one of the first video infrastructure companies to adopt the Google TV Broadcast Stack, an extension of Android TV.

Daystar Television Network, a 24-hour faith-based network with over 5 billion viewers worldwide, has completed a massive upgrade of its communications capabilities using Riedel Communications' Artist digital matrix intercom and Bolero wireless intercom.

ATG Danmon announces the completion of a 4K television production and live streaming facility at the Lafayette London events centre. Commissioned by the Venue Group, the new system allows for live relay of stage performances as well as studio-style recording.…

China Media Group (CMG) selected the Media Links MD8000 platform to power the transmission of the Shenzhen 40th anniversary live event that brought together tens of millions of viewers via CMG's China Central Television's (CCTV) television station and its other…

Cobalt Digital's latest advanced scaler/frame synchronizer for the openGear platform was developed in direct response to customer requests for one module that supports four independent signal paths.

The ADA-128 is a groundbreaking modular system delivering up to 128 channels of A/D D/A conversion and brings new levels of flexibility to the professional audio market.

There are two components of gamma that have quite different purposes. One of them is always necessary because displays and their surroundings are never equally as bright as the original scene. The other one is a compression technique.

Sennheiser examines the theory, implementation, and uses of the Ambisonic soundfield, and its important role in the immersive audio world.

The ability of upscaling to give new life to old content, as well demonstrate the full value of the latest 8K TVs, has already been well proven through traditional techniques.

As live sports broadcasts resume in the U.S., the industry is grappling with how to keep its crews safe by following strict COVID-19 guidelines-established by the U.S. government and the industry itself-while maintaining the high production quality viewers expect. Safety…

Illegal piracy subscription services are now worth over $1 billion a year in the US alone, according to a study conducted by the Digital Citizens Alliance in conjunction with NAGRA, the content security arm of the Swiss Kudelski group.

Brazilian broadcaster R?dio Itatiaia, with a network of 52 affiliate stations in the state of Minas Gerais, has installed a new Lawo routing system to switch, process and distribute programming from its headquarters in Belo Horizonte.

Enhancements include productivity tools that simplify and accelerate workflow, support for augmented reality, and new LyricX mode on PRIME Platform.

TAG has announced support for an additional streaming format that will provide technical, financial and operational benefits to customers.

Magewell announce new updates for the company's Pro Convert for NDI to HDMI and Pro Convert for NDI to HDMI 4K standalone IP decoders that further expand the devices' support for NewTek's evolving NDI media-over-IP technology.

The solution includes TSL's TallyMan Control System, FlashBoard Display as well as PAM-IP and MPA1 Audio Monitors.

Open Broadcast Systems latest SDI card is claimed to deliver the lowest latency of any card available as well as operating with high density and increased performance.

The Austrian Parliament has launched an OTT platform to record and transmit parliamentary sessions, using the Insys Cloud Video Recorder running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

While cloud computing and storage have reimagined how remote workflows are implemented, they can also play a huge role in business continuity and even disaster recovery. As many major productions have already proven, the key to continued success is extending…

ABR segments are transferred conventionally using HTTP/1.0 transfers, where the client requests the whole segment and it is transferred using store-and-forward transfers, where all the data belonging to the transfer is buffered before sending. In order to start the transfer,…

The explosion in digital technology that led to Compact Discs, DVD, personal computers, digital cameras, the Internet and digital television broadcasting relies heavily on a small number of enabling technologies, one of which is the use of Reed-Solomon error correcting…

People are not just flocking to beaches and holiday resorts as lockdowns are eased but also to their TV screens for viewing of returning live sports.

The image of a director crouching to line up a shot with an optical viewfinder is one that's been pushed aside somewhat by the less romantic modern image of a director squinting at an LCD monitor. The monitors have a…

China's leading state broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV), has installed the country’s first full IP video mobile system for video production. This mobile studio project uses the Lawo V__matrix software-defined IP-Routing, Processing & Multi-Viewing Platform as its core technology infrastructure.…

LTN Global says its transport service is being used for the first commercial deployment of ATSC 3.0 in the U.S. in Las Vegas. Following the launch on May 26, LTN Global has also become the preferred transport network partner for…

Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) says it offers professional gamers the perfect eSports experience including crystal-clear full HD resolutions with 240 Hz frame rates and without any noticeable latency.

Telos Alliance's latest virtual event in its 2020 Virtual Showcase series, “Save Money, Increase Efficiency, and Automate Audio Workflows with AudioTools Server," will be held on July 15, 2020, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada).

As one of the most prestigious schools in the UK, the University of York's Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media equips students with the skills necessary to achieve greatness in the creative industries. An important part of the…

Broadcasters can now deliver AR weather reports from anywhere without a green screen??.

Motion Path, which designs augmented reality and real-time broadcast graphics, and Zenapptic.ai, a developer of virtual interactive experiences, is launching UpRoar Live!, a solution designed to bring spectator excitement back to live events.

SDI is one of those technologies that is so well established and ubiquitous it can almost be taken for granted.

A sharp rise in TV viewing during the Covid-19 crisis has been widely anticipated and is now being confirmed by survey results around the world.

The CRC (cyclic redundancy check) was primarily an error detector, but it did allow some early error correction systems to be implemented.

There are many different CRCs but they all work in much the same way, which is that the…

20 years ago, broadcast television went through an evolution as it transitioned from analog to digital distribution. This migration was driven by the demand for larger channel counts and spectrum reallocation. Since that transition, another, even more significant sea change…

Broadcasters and local newscasts using the internet for physical distancing are the TV engineering topic of the moment.

Pathfinder Core PRO VML allow broadcasters to deploy monitoring and control tools on certified hardware.

Independent station WHDH Boston has installed Solid State Logic's new System T audio mixing console to replace an existing SSL C100 console that had been in operation for nearly 14 years. The new System T comprises a Tempest T25 256-path…

For several years, NEP Group, a producer of live sports and entertainment throughout the world, has relied on TSL Products' MPA1 audio monitoring units to help with live broadcasts. The veteran production company is now using TSL Products' new MPA1…

To help commission new radio systems for NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, engineers from Lawo have conducted a fully remote Factory Acceptance Test using online conferencing media to interact with NRK's on-site project team and certify their new systems to…

Adhering to social distancing mandates, Riedel Communication’s MediorNet real-time signal transport, processing, and routing technology is powering a drive-up ministry for Cherry Hills Community Church, in suburban Denver.

Studio Hamburg Media Consult International (MCI) and Clear-Com are assisting Germany's home shopping channel, HSE24, in navigating the current challenges posed by COVID-19. With the necessity of a relocation of individual production members to their home offices, the HSE24 team…

HRTF stands for Head Related Transfer Function and, simply put, is a catch-all term for the characteristics a human head imparts on sound before it enters the ear canal. Everything from level tonal changes caused by our head, shoulders, and…

Before pandemics and the downsizing at traditional, broadcast news operations, many news and non-fiction DOPs were already assuming a significant role in post-production. Whereas frame rates, f-stops, and the character of our lenses, once formed the backbone of our expertise…

Director of photography John Christian Rosenlund has at least a three-decade history with director Bent Hamer. Their most recent collaboration, The Middle Man, depicts a town in the northern United States during a post-industrial depression. It's perhaps not a subject…

Local broadcasters are used to mission-critical because everything is mission-critical. Moving critical data may be the right move.

Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) is gaining traction faster than any other video compression standard as it approaches final approval by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

In the wake of the pandemic, Telestream has used the restrictions imposed on virtually every equipment supplier over the past few months to innovate and focus on providing new features for its products that facilitate remote operation and automated quality…

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) has migrated its production communications infrastructure to Riedel's Bolero wireless intercom system. Replacing an obsolete wired system, Bolero provides crystal-clear, efficient, and easy-to-manage communications for WAAPA performance crews at both on-campus and…

Built for post production, live production and engineering, the latest release supports enhanced test tools for UHD and 4K/8K with RGB 4:4:4 12-bit HDR/WCG and False color tools as well as the latest immersive audio surround formats.

?Riedel partnered with Remote Recording Network (RRN) and Live Nation to establish a first-of-its-kind trans-Atlantic remote mastering workflow for the Wacken World Wide 2020 music festival.

Telestream's says its media processing and workflow automation platform Vantage is being used by ITV's Content Delivery Team.

The KVM manufacturer has a new control room for showing customers how G&D KVM equipment works in a live environment.

While we’re still learning the new normal, it’s clear that remote work will significantly change the M&E landscape going forward, says Telestream.

If an 8K content service from OTT providers like Amazon, Netflix and YouTube is ever going to be successful, and that's still a hot topic of debate, new types of compression will have to be part of the solution. Terrestrial…

Most film and TV jobs start with some simple questions, as Gregory Irwin puts it. "What is it, where is it, when is it." In April 2018 Irwin found himself asking those questions of cinematographer Lawrence Sher, with whom he'd…

Video encoding is running up against a complexity barrier that is raising costs and reducing scope for further improvements in quality.

The first burst error correcting code was the Fire Code, which was once widely used on hard disk drives. Here we look at how it works and how it was used.

Twenty years ago, there was a clear divide between how you shot and finished a project for Cinema compared to the typical workflows used in broadcast TV. With the advent of streaming services that provide 4K/UHD to a broad audience…

Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG), the nation's public service broadcaster with headquarters in Podgorica, has installed a state-of-the-art networking and communications network from Riedel Communications for a new studio upgrade.

Calrec Audio is hosting virtual demonstrations of its Assist UI, a browser-based virtual console environment with multiple versions available for a variety of its products and networking systems. Customers are encouraged to sign up for private sessions via the company…

Lawo is helping customers develop innovative technical workflows to keep operations running during lockdown, using remote solutions and online communication software.

LTN Wave, a terrestrial IP-based distribution solution, is designed as an alternative to satellite distribution. LTN Wave brings together LTN's transport, monitoring and control solutions to enable broadcast quality multicast distribution over IP.

The Parliament of Catalonia delivers live HD broadcasts with AJA solutions for recording, conversion and frame synchronization.

Magewell has upgraded its Ultra Stream encoders to simplify live streaming and enable recording of high-quality video with one click using on-device buttons, a browser-based web interface or a smartphone app.

Veteran systems integrator ATG Danmon has completed a UHD video production facility for the London headquarters of Fidelity International, an investment firm. The project was prompted by Fidelity's recent relocation to a new office building at 4 Cannon Street in…

Several licensed experimental ATSC 3.0 stations have been on the air for some time. Now, the first commercial ATSC 3.0 stations have signed on in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.

The Farm is a leading full-service post production group that started in Soho, London, subsequently opening facilities in Manchester and Bristol in the UK, and West Hollywood in Los Angeles. The Farm is well known for its ground-breaking creative approaches…

Pay TV is now in chronic decline across almost the whole of the Americas as ongoing recession among the Latin countries continues to bite.

Steeven Petitteville's background in cinematography begins with the sort of story that many people would like to be able to tell. Petitteville didn't finish studying at the ESRA film school in Paris, having become too busy working in the camera…

Digital audio has a remarkably short history, but apart from a few enthusiasts of legacy technology, the takeover has been total.

ChyronHego's Virtual Placement technology is being used by Interregional Sports Group (ISG) to place virtual graphics into live broadcasts of Lega Serie A football matches. Using space in empty stands and other areas on and around the pitch to display…

Following the success of its 2019 world tour, TSL Products is now offering a virtual training program for its TallyMan Advanced Broadcast Control System to customers around the globe. TSL's TallyMan brings complex systems under a single point of control…

New converter decodes H.264 live stream from ATEM Mini Pro to connect direct to any broadcaster via the internet.

Swaraj Express chooses Grass Valley solutions for future-ready newsroom capability.

?DaVinci Resolve Studio was used to post produce Elton John's performance of "I’m Still Standing" for One World: Together At Home, the global digital broadcast to support frontline healthcare workers and the WHO.

YouTube creator Cherry Wallis is using DaVinci Resolve Studio for post-production on her Harry Potter Wizarding World themed channel.

Described as a new low cost live production switcher with a five stream recording engine that allows all video inputs to be recorded allowing a live production to be edited after the event.

Over-The-Top (OTT) started life as a means to deliver file-based assets for on-demand viewing, and most of its key characteristics echo that origin.

Here we look at some of the origins of gamma in imaging and move on to introduce the peculiar characteristics of the cathode ray tube.

It seems almost superfluous today to specify that audio is digital because most audio capture, production and distribution today is done numerically. This was not always the case and at one time audio was primarily done without the help of…

Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC), one of the country's leading cable TV operators, is the latest recruit in the region for Android TV, following deployments of the platform at Kbro in the same country, as well as KT Skylife and CJ…

Lawo, German innovator and manufacturer of pioneering IP-based broadcast technology, has started organizing weekly Lawo Lounge (Wednesdays) and How-To (Thursdays) sessions to stay connected with its customers and future Lawo users. The first sessions were streamed on Wednesday, June 10th,…

The advantages of IP are most beneficial in OB production.

Florida-based MIG is virtual live streaming events using InfinitySet for many of its clients.

Production company Ascender produced YouTube web series, Modern Wardudes using the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and DaVinci Resolve Studio.

New dual channel ingest solution provides claimed lowest cost access to capture plus Vantage media processing.

Media processing technologies developer nablet has licensed its XAVC encoder to Telestream. The tech is claimed to perform 20 percent faster long GOP encoding, or up to 30 percent less CPU usage for same profiles than competing solutions.

The Telos Alliance has announced the launch of Telos Infinity IP Intercom software v1.6, which includes an update to Telos Infinity Dashboard Advanced, as well as for the embedded software for Infinity panels and belt packs.

The IEEE has just published the latest version of its Precision Time Protocol (PTP) standard that provides precise synchronization of clocks in packet-based networked systems. This article explains the significance of IEEE 1588-2019, otherwise known as PTPv2.1, and how it…

With the emergence of the cloud into the media production and delivery space, the broadcast and media industry must embrace an entirely new approach to acquiring and deploying technology. Large capital expenditures (CapEx) are increasingly being replaced by operating expense…

ABR delivery offers the prospect of automatic adaptation of bit rates to the prevailing network conditions. Since the client is aware of the set of available bit rates, it can determine, segment-by-segment, which is the optimal bit rate to use.

As the media landscape continues to streamline the way it delivers content, cloud-native technology, that is, container-based virtualized environments that replicate traditional workflows on premise, is playing a big role. However, some broadcasters moving their assets and processing power to…

In mid-May of this year, as countries such as Germany, England, and Spain considered easing COVID-19 restrictions to allow professional sports to resume, various professional sports leagues began discussions with broadcasters and production companies on the best way to televise…

MediaHub Australia transitioned to a work from home scenario during lockdown with assistance of Magna Systems, Grass Valley, Akamai and RTS.

Brainstorm and US reseller Broadcast Management Group, have helped TD Ameritrade Network to migrate its Market Drive physical events online by placing them on a live virtual Town Hall.

VITEC, a provider of advanced video encoding and streaming technology, has announced its MGW ChannelLink IP distribution gateway.

Magewell, a developer of innovative video interface and IP workflow products, has expanded support for the Mac platform with an SDK for its PCI Express capture cards and plug-and-play and external capture devices.

As broadcasters strive to deliver the high-quality viewing experience that audiences desire, IP provides the scale and agility required to create increased volumes of premium content more efficiently.

Lawo has announced that its mc?-series audio production consoles as well as its surface-less operations including mc? Micro Core can be controlled from any place in the world with a decent internet connection-even using a smartphone as a 4G personal…

Joint solution is part of Teleos' Innovative Video Distribution Network for the delivery of broadcast-quality, low latency live video at the highest bitrate.

KMSS lights up a new liquid-cooled transmitter system with just 30 days to TV’s most-watched event.

It's all very well reading all this theory about colorimetry, but what can be done in practice? First of all, it is necessary to consider that imaging, be it still or moving, is a creative process that relies totally on…

It's one thing to be confronted by a big pile of technology and to be confused by it. It's another to know something about that technology and conclude that things could be a lot simpler than they are. That's the…

The first set of quarterly financial results during the lockdown has given the clearest indication yet of what impact the crisis is having on sectors and individual companies in the video services and broadcasting sector, with a stark divide between…

The current social and medical situation with lockdowns and distancing is unleashing new ideas at local TV stations. Some will become the new normal.

OTT delivery continues to expand to meet the relentless growing consumer demand. This trend shows no chance of abating and technologists are continually looking to innovation to scale infrastructures accordingly. In this sponsors perspective, Ryan Nicometo, SVP of Product for…

LTN Global has expanded access to automated channel management, advanced advertising, and content replacement workflow with LTN Cue.

OB company Bexel used 70 AJA FS-HDR converters to help facilitate simultaneous live production of the North American football championship across HD-HDR and HD-SDR formats.

In early April RTBF, Belgium's public broadcaster for the country's French-speaking community, took delivery of the first of two full-IP OB trucks. Due to the lockdown, the 12m (40 ft.) long trailer had to be configured remotely using TeamViewer, a…

With many productions around the world currently operating from the homes of staff and on-screen talent due to the lockdown, Clear-Com has seen a rise in the adoption of its Agent-IC mobile app for iOS and Android that turns smartphones,…

Partnership with Castus adds teleconferencing meeting support to Broadcast Pix live broadcasting and streaming solutions.

To help news media continue to deliver programming from home or outside a traditional studio, Arti is offering a free package of augmented reality graphics for integration into video content using the Arti platform.

Polygon Labs' Creative Hub provides a remote, on-demand creative and professional services subscription that specialises in real-time graphics, channel branding and virtual production.

There are a number of reasons why people like old lenses, and they're all very valid. Cameras and lenses so good they're invisible are a recent development. Most of the best films ever made, by default, predate today's spotless pictures,…

Felix Kr?ckels is a certified audio engineer who graduated from the Detmold University of Music and has been involved in immersive audio since 2012. He was there when NHK launched its Super Hi-Vision project with the help of Lawo.

The Reed Solomon codes are defined by what the decoder expects to see and the encoder has to be configured to suit that.

The MediaKind Universe represents our portfolio of solutions and services, designed to offer the best of media technology to cater to the needs of our customers' workflows. Content owners, broadcasters, service and pure OTT providers will discover how our solutions…

Magewell, based in Nanjing, China, has started shipping the sixth model in its Eco Capture range of compact M.2 video capture cards providing input signal compatibility with older 4K source equipment.

Continuing its successful webinar series, TAG Video Systems has released details for its next line-up, which began on July 29th. The series offers a deep dive into topics ranging from operating in a virtual environment to latency. The series is…

All of France marks the beginning of the modern French Nation each year on 14 July, with events taking place all over the country, but this year's National Holiday was quite different due to the pandemic felt everywhere in the…

SaaS deployment allows De Tune to take on the constraints of lockdown head on.

Visual effects company Flying Turtle Post used Fusion Studio VFX and motion graphics software on new comedy 'Looks That Kill.'

ChyronHego has expanded its Academy training program with a new certification course focused on the company's Paint sports production analysis solution. Paint allows sports pundits, commentators, or producers to visually analyze game play using augmented data-driven graphics and immersive video…

OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies has announced today its appointment as the newest member of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN).

Broadcasters and video service providers have become ever more attractive targets of credential stuffing attacks for cyber criminals seeking both content and subscribers' personal details.

Thanks to Over-the-Top (OTT) streaming video, content owners and broadcasters have a very different relationship with the end consumer - often a direct one.

Blackmagic Design today announced UltraStudio Monitor 3G and UltraStudio Recorder 3G, two new capture and playback solutions featuring 3G-SDI and HDMI connections plus high speed ThunderboltT 3 technology. UltraStudio Monitor 3G and UltraStudio Recorder 3G are extremely portable, pocket sized…

Lawo has just released new software with additional options, functionality and security features for its line of radio mixing consoles, RAVENNA / AES67 mixing engines, and VisTool GUI Builder software.

TAG now offers effective monitoring in the cloud on AWS and Microsoft solutions.

The first S12T Streamline OB van for the African continent has been successfully delivered to Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA). Built and outfitted by Broadcast Solutions in Germany in a mere three months, the Streamline S12T is a truck/box body combination…

Blackmagic Design announced today that Chalk Warfare 4.0, the newest installment of popular YouTube series Chalk Warfare, was produced using a full Blackmagic Design workflow, from production through post. This includes using URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2, Pocket Cinema Camera…

On Saturday at 3:22 p.m. EDT SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board successfully launched into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Object Matrix, based in Cardiff, UK, has relaunched its managed storage service as MatrixStore Cloud.

In the mid-70s, Canon released the K35 series of primes, based on its then top-of-the-line FD mount stills lenses. It wasn't the first or last time a set of glass elements designed for stills had been repackaged for movie work,…

Lawo's Christian Scheck takes a tour of console functions and features that have a special place in immersive audio production, and how they are developing.

In the age of eager reporters surfing the internet for scandalous scoops, who is helping defend TV station newsrooms by detecting and tagging fake pictures and videos before they air, and how are they doing it? Hint: It's not ‘golden…

H.264 continues to dominate the video codec field, accounting for 91% of all usage by participants, despite all the hype around newer more advanced codecs such as H.265 and AV1.

Online video captioning is critical for the deaf community at any time, but during a public health emergency like COVID-19, it has taken on a new significance, particularly as people stay at home.

RTS announce the global introduction of OMS (OMNEO Main Station), a hybrid IP/digital/analog main station for partyline intercom systems and the core component of a major new product family: RTS Digital Partyline.

Dejero is providing Asia's leading media and technology services company, Ideal Systems and its live broadcast and production division, 'Ideal LIVE', with the robust connectivity required to produce high quality live coverage of major events in the cloud.

Broadcast industry solutions provider LOGIC media solutions has integrated a Leader LT4611 video sync and PTP reference generator into a mobile IP demonstration system based at the company’s headquarters at Bickenbach, southern Germany. The system will be used to detail…

The release of DIVA 8.1 contains 30 performance enhancements to the DIVA Software Suite for digital asset management.

The Indie 7 debuts this month as an entry-level member of their Smart 7 monitor family, further expanding creative control for filmmakers in need of a reliable touchscreen field monitor.

The Future Group, creators of live photo-realistic virtual production system Pixotope, announced it has introduced version 1.4 of the software. This includes full support for Unreal Engine version 4.25, as well as other improvements around connectivity and workflows.

?Vizrt streamlines editing workflow capabilities for Viz Story 2 and Viz One 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro

This time last year, had anyone predicted or suggested what is now normal in live TV news, sports and entertainment, such as fake fans, laugh track-style crowd noise and regular live news reporting and interviews from reporter's homes, they would…

According to International Civil Aviation Organization rules, if an airliner transmits a certain four-digit transponder code, the world should assume that it is being hijacked. The 2019 film 7500, directed by Patrick Vollrath, takes that code as its title and…

To attract and retain an audience, OTT services must provide excellent customer experience by delivering content at the highest possible quality. Service must be smooth, uninterrupted and in the resolution required by the customer. This is one of the key…

CDNs are much more than just high-speed links between ISPs. Instead, they form a complete ecosystem of storage and processing. In this article we look at the different workloads for Live and VOD to understand better how they operate.

MediaKind has launched Mediaroom Play, a new client addition enabling operators to deploy set top boxes (STBs) running on Android TV.

Working with technology solutions provider Avnet, Black Box will increase its capacity to design, deploy, scale and manage complete IoT solutions in a quick and cost-effective manner.

For real-time messaging graphics for Japanese television shows and variety programs, Japan's broadcasters require efficient and high-quality 'telop' and text character generator software and some are using a product from Photron.

?Feature length Netflix documentary 'Kiss the Ground' was conformed and graded using DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Third Summit, described as a collective of full-stack digital media solutions, launches Alteon media platform based on Vidispine technology

Camplex, New York based fiber division of Tower Products Inc, has announced a new range of inline opticalCON couplers to extend cable runs and join opticalCON DUO or QUAD cables together with minimal loss.

Marjan Television Network, a major Persian-language broadcaster based in London, has upgraded its media asset management and production asset management (PAM) capabilities to Primestream Xchange platform.

Central storage systems for OTT are unique in the world of media storage. They combine a set of requirements which no other media use case has to handle.

The legacy gamma adopted in 709 and 240M has recently been supplanted by two more approaches to applying non-linearity to luminance, namely the Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) system developed by the BBC and NHK and the Perceptive Quantizer (PQ) developed…

Migrating live and file-based video services to the cloud holds the promise of huge flexibility in deployment architectures, geographical backhaul possibilities, virtually limitless peak provisioning, pay per use pricing, access to machine learning and other advanced intellectual property on-demand, and…

There's no way to sugarcoat it: The pandemic has had a highly disruptive effect on video production and distribution in 2020 and many agree it will be felt for several years. The inability for people to gather safely has made…

With many production personnel working from home these days, gaining access to computers and systems back at the studio can be tricky, both logistically and due to obtaining the right security authorization. In many cases, a network- or software-based solution…

Many facilities considering the move to cloud-based operations must first understand how their existing inventory of equipment will interoperate with virtualized services. This is often referred to as a hybrid system-on cloud and on-premise. However, to do it successfully, there's…

Lawo has introduced the next generation of its AUHD Core signal processing engine that allows users to remotely access and control its mc? series of audio mixing consoles in a distributed infrastructure-whether that be in a production facility or on…

Riedel MediorNet, Artist, and Bolero enable unique, student-produced broadcast at Germany's Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Genelec has unveiled a major free upgrade to its hugely popular GLM software for audio monitor system setup, calibration and control.

Historical drama series, Atlantic Crossing, was graded in DaVinci Resolve by Nordisk Film Shortcut Oslo senior colorist, Dylan R. Hopkin.

German broadcaster, ZDF has used DaVinci Resolve Studio to edit and grade a trio of docs as part of the TerraX series.

Asharq News, a 24/7 multiplatform Arabic news service has new data driven graphics system from Astucemedia.